“Time’s” Mark Halperin Pleads with GOP Not to Use Obama’s Support of Ground Zero Mosque Against Dems

Time Magazine’s Mark Halperin is pleading with Republicans not to use President Obama’s endorsement of the Ground Zero Mosque against Democrats in the Midterm Elections:

Time: . . . . Yes, Republicans, you can take advantage of this heated circumstance, backed by the families of the 9/11 victims, in their most emotional return to the public stage since 2001.

But please don’t do it. There are a handful of good reasons to oppose allowing the Islamic center to be built so close to Ground Zero, particularly the family opposition and the availability of other, less raw locations. But what is happening now — the misinformation about the center and its supporters; the open declarations of war on Islam on talk radio, the Internet and other forums; the painful divisions propelled by all the overheated rhetoric — is not worth whatever political gain your party might achieve.

It isn’t clear how the battle over the proposed center should or will end. But two things are profoundly clear: Republicans have a strong chance to win the midterm elections without picking a fight over President Obama’s measured words. And a national political fight conducted on the terms we have seen in the past few days will lead to a chain reaction at home and abroad that will have one winner — the very extreme and violent jihadists we all can claim as our true enemy. . . . Read More

Contrary to what Halperin says, Republicans WILL be doing the “right thing” if they wrap Obama’s endorsement around the necks of every Democrat running in November. This endorsement reveals the kind of President we have. A man who is not only comfortable with Radicals, but one who is a radical himself. He thinks he knows better than the collective wisdom of the American People on issue after issue. Democrats have blindly followed him and the country is suffering because of it.

Obama is wrong on the Ground Zero Mosque, and Republicans should call him on it from now to 2012.

NOTE: Isn’t it interesting that you have a reporter who is supposed to be an impartial journalist pleading with Republicans in behalf of President Obama? How many times did Halperin or other reporters plead for George W. Bush as he tried to win the war in Iraq?